How much is spam REALLY costing your organization?

Even if your company uses filtering technology and your filters are catching MOST of your spam, your employees still spend time searching through their spam folders to ensure that legitimate e-mails are not accidentally filtered out.

Use the calculator below to determine the cost in lost employee productivity that even MINIMAL spam is causing your organization.


Spam Cost Calculator


Number of employees with e-mail   
Avg Annual Salary of your employees   
Avg number of minutes spent each day dealing with spam   



Cost of spam to your organization per year:

So, based on our Q3 2007 Pricing, you can block 100% of spam and break even on your investment in no time! We've listed the investment required and how many days it will take you to break even on your investment based on lost productivity.

ESP Cost (1 year, traditional licensing):

Days to Break Even:


"Yeah right! How did you come up with that?" Well ... based on the information provided, we performed the following complex arithmetic:

First, compute the average employee cost per minute, and how many minutes are lost due to spam.

Employee Data:

Average Annual Salary:
Employee Burdened Cost (Sal. X 1.4):
Employee Monthly Burdened Cost:
Employee Daily Burdened Cost:
Employee Burdened Cost per Minute:

Minutes lost to spam each day:
Minutes lost to spam each week:
Minutes lost to spam each month:

Then, we multiply it out (Daily cost, Weekly Cost, Monthly Cost) to get the cost of spam per employee.

Cost of spam:

Per Employee Cost per Day:
Per Employee Cost per Week:
Per Employee Cost per Month:

Finally, we take the monthly cost of spam per employee, multiply by 12, and then by the number of employees.

Total Annual Cost to Organization:



Want to learn more?

Give us a call at (877) END-2-SPAM, or request a demo here.